Collected Stories by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Book Description

The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin's prose fiction contains all his mature work. In addition to 'The Captain's Daughter' and 'The Tales of Belkin', the volume now includes many more short pieces and 'The History of Pugachev', a vivid account of an eighteenth-century Russian rebellion. Pushkin's prose tales are the foundation stones of Russian literature. They made possible the great achievements of Dostosvsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov. But they are also, of course, brilliant and fascinating in their own right. At this volume makes clear, Pushkins is one of the world's great story-tellers' direct, dramatic, tender, with the author 's voices always peruasively present. Paul Debreceny's highly acclaimed translation was first published in 1983. The Everyman edition is published to coincide with the Bicentenary of Pushkin's birth on 26th May 1999.

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Books By Author Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

A collection of plays by Russian playwright Alexander Pushkin and translated by Stephen Mulrine, this volume features fiveplays: Boris Godunov, A Feast in Time of Plague, The Miserly Knight, Mozart and Salieri and The Stone Guest.

A translation from the original Russian of Pushkin's four short dramas in verse. The translater and critic Nancy Anderson preserves the cadence and intensity of the works, while aligning them with modern poetic practices and a freer approach to metrics. Critical essays examine each play in depth.

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